Lily Stockman is a time traveler of the imagination: medieval Bruges, Trecento Siena, the gem markets of Jaipur, India, coastal Maine, 19th-century New England Shakers, and Los Angeles all flicker up ...

Gilded paintings were popular in late medieval Italian art, but not every artist had the budget for real gold. Painter Cimabue used a mixture of pigments and silver powder to create a similar golden ...

Medieval art continues to resurface as a foil for the art of subsequent generations. In the quattrocento, Vasari coined the term "gothic" to decry the "barbarousness" of such pre-Renaissance styles.

The Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich have restituted a Nazi-looted painting from the late medieval period to its legal heirs. The 1480 work by an unknown artist had been in the collection ...

The medieval era started in the 5th Century with the collapse of Roman civilization, lasting all the way to the Renaissance. When exactly the Middle Ages ended varies depending on what historian you ...

Just before Christmas, a hidden Nativity scene has been discovered after being tucked away under another painting for centuries. The artwork, which is believed to be around 400 years old and is ...